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Description: | Artist: Samuel Gilbody's Porcelain Manufactory; Date(s): circa 1754 - circa 1760; Classification(s): porcelain, figure, moulding, Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast (?) and painted overglaze in pale greyish-blue, pale yellow, flesh, red, brown, and black enamels. The underside has acentral ventilation hole.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928, Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest [C.3095-1928]
Description: Figure.Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in pale greyish-blue, pale yellow, flesh, red, brown, and black enamels.The underside has large circular ventilation hole, and apart from a small area near the ventilation hole, is unglazed. The woman stands on a low circular base. She has ruddy cheeks, brown eyes and red lips. She wears a pale yellow hat over a white frilled cap, a short red cape, a pale greyish-blue petticoat, a yellow skirt, a white apron, and black shoes.Her feet are slightly part, and she holds a piece of dark flesh-coloured wood (?) under her right arm, and holds up her apron in her left hand. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | figure porcelain Samuel Gilbody's Porcelain Manufactory | Temporal: | name=mid 18th Century; start=1754; end=1760 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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